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POETRY FOUNDATION’S POETRY OFF THE SHELF PODCAST INTERVIEWS JoANNA NOVAK
November 15, 2022
ACTION BOOKS REVIEWS EQUESTRIAN MONUMENTS
September 28, 2022
“Thoughtfully co-translated by Julia Guez and Samantha Zighelboim, Luis Chaves’s Equestrian Monuments can be approached as a genre-defying guide to the suspension of motion, or the author’s own motion to suspend the rules of poetry . . . Throughout Equestrian Monuments the invisible sound of the past forms a vibrating inventory of years and weeds, ache and wisdom. Chaves brings everything outside in . . . This poet’s limitless inventory of external forces prompts the reader to pause and become something else entirely.” —Paul Cunningham
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS FEATURES A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JoANNA NOVAK AND
COLLEEN LOUISE BARRY
“Colleen is campy, glittery, neon, black-lit joy. Think giant, melty sculptures of Danielle Steel hardcovers; ball pits beneath jellyfish-translucent streamers; Day-Glo trophies . . . The speaker in these poems is so wise, self-sure, and patient. Many lines floored me.”
KATE DURBIN INTERVIEWS COLLEEN LOUISE BARRY
FOR VOL. 1 BROOKLYN
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS FEATURES A CONVERSATION BETWEEN CARLOS FONSECA AND LUIS CHAVES
“I like to think that, in his case, his poignant writing springs from the traces that are left behind. Traces that, with time, begin to sketch the impressive radiography of a common man’s life . . . Playing with the remainders that refuse to surrender to oblivion, his books reconstruct quotidian scenes from lives that might have otherwise gone unnoticed. Luis Chaves is the attentive witness that renders each of those poetic moments finally visible.”
COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FEATURES JULIA GUEZ AND SAMANTHA ZIGHELBOIM IN “A POET’S LIFE”
ELISA GABBERT INCLUDES THE JOY AND TERROR ARE BOTH IN THE SWALLOWING IN HER YEAR IN READING
December 31, 2021
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS REVIEWS GALINA RYMBU’S LIFE IN SPACE
December 30, 2021
THE STRANGER FEATURES COLLEEN LOUISE BARRY IN CONVERSATION WITH SARAH JEAN ALEXANDER
December 9, 2021
LITHUB EXCERPTS JoANNA NOVAK’S ABEYANCE, NORTH AMERICA
December 3, 2021
LITHUB INTERVIEWS AFTER HOURS EDITIONS
September 17, 2021
HARPER’S BAZAAR FEATURES CHRISTINE SHAN SHAN HOU IN CONVERSATION WITH ELAINE KAHN
August 4, 2021
FULL STOP REVIEWS GALINA RYMBU’S LIFE IN SPACE
“Rymbu writes from a towering vantage, a birds-eye view of those excavation sites, whole smoking factories, whole cities in flames, whole historical trajectories. Uniquely, she also writes from a position of the greatest intimacy, sleeping on the floor with a child and a fellow revolutionary, smoking a cigarette in the cold while sifting through the trash on the ground. With good reason, perhaps, many contemporary poets seem reluctant to shoulder such expansiveness or to offer historical judgment. Yet Rymbu rises to the heights of vision and sinks to the depths of sensation.”
July 28, 2021
THE RUTH STONE HOUSE PODCAST INTERVIEWS EMILY BRANDT AND JULIA GUEZ
July 4, 2021
ZYZZYVA REVIEWS CHRISTINE SHAN SHAN HOU’S THE JOY AND TERROR ARE BOTH IN THE SWALLOWING
A SWORD DOWN THE THROAT
“Hou’s language is precise, confident, and sometimes even steely, reaching immediately to the heart of things. Yet the range of images, ideas, and emotions throughout this collection make it anything but easy to stomach. With themes of nature, artificiality, lostness, and science, Hou crafts a landscape of language and being that is at once embodied and alienating, human and not. We are entering a new urban ecology: ‘a smooth era / what a smooth & / violent era.’
. . . If ever we find ourselves lost in this deadly metropolis of modernity, Hou reassures us that sometimes all we need in order to orient ourselves is a sharp inhale.”
June 4, 2021
VERSE RUNS A PLAYLIST FROM CHRISTINE SHAN SHAN HOU’S THE JOY AND TERROR ARE BOTH IN THE SWALLOWING
THE RUMPUS INCLUDES THE JOY AND TERROR ARE BOTH IN THE SWALLOWING IN “WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU WANT TO CELEBRATE APIA HERITAGE MONTH”
May 14, 2021
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
ON RUSSIAN FEMINIST POETRY AND GALINA RYMBU’S LIFE IN SPACE
MAUDLIN HOUSE INTERVIEWS CHRISTINE SHAN SHAN HOU ABOUT THE JOY AND TERROR ARE BOTH IN THE SWALLOWING
MS. MAGAZINE INCLUDES CHRISTINE SHAN SHAN HOU’S THE JOY AND TERROR ARE BOTH IN THE SWALLOWING IN “2021 POETRY FOR THE REST OF US”
April 19, 2021
THE AAG REVIEW OF BOOKS REVIEWS GALINA RYMBU’S LIFE IN SPACE
April 12, 2021
LOSSI36 ON GALINA RYMBU’S LIFE IN SPACE AND “POETRY WITH A CONSCIENCE”
April 4, 2021
92Y’S “READ BY” FEATURES A POEM BY
CHRISTINE SHAN SHAN HOU
Diana Khoi Nguyen reads “Amanuensis” from Christine Shan Shan Hou’s The Joy and Terror Are Both in the Swallowing
February 14, 2021
NOTES ON THE PRESS
February 3, 2021
TIME FEATURES GALINA RYMBU
December 23, 2020
WGXC’S WAVEFARM INTERVIEWS AFTER HOURS EDITIONS
The good folks at WGXC’s WaveFarm were kind enough to dedicate a Thursday afternoon to After Hours Editions.
Hosts Tom DePietro and CeCe Graham speak with editors Eric Amling and Sarah Jean Grimm, along with poets Emily Brandt, JoAnna Novak, and Lawrence Griffin.
OPEN READING PERIOD FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
Please send us a 20-page sample from your full-length poetry manuscript (in progress or complete).
We will respond to submissions by the beginning of the new year, and in some cases, we will ask to see the rest of the manuscript in question.
We will give authors one month from our notice to send us the rest of their project, which we hope will be in roughly the 60-80 page range.
Questions? Reach out to us with the subject line “Question about open reading period”
Submitting? Thank you, and we look forward to reading your work! Please attach it as a PDF in an email to afterhrs.submissions@gmail.com with a subject line “Last Name, First Name, Title/Submission.” Please also include a short bio and a brief description of the work.
Simultaneous submissions are fine and encouraged, but please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Deadline is October 31, 2020.
VERSE RUNS A PLAYLIST FROM EMILY BRANDT’S FALSEHOOD
HYPERALLERGIC REVIEWS UNTITLED, 2004
July 11, 2020
OFFERING A DISCOUNTED BUNDLE FOR OUR FIRST THREE BOOKS: $45
May 10, 2020
THE T LIST: FIVE THINGS WE RECOMMEND THIS WEEK
January 30, 2020
EMILY BRANDT LAUNCHES FALSEHOOD
January 14, 2020
ALMANAC WEEKLY: BANK HOLIDAY PRESENTS ARIANA REINES
AT BILLS BAR
July 31, 2019
ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST FULL-LENGTH COLLECTIONS FOR WINTER 2020
In the Winter of 2020, After Hours Editions will publish poetry collections by JoAnna Novak and Emily Brandt. Their books will be the launch of our full-length ventures and we couldn't be more excited. May they be the first of many!
May 10, 2019
May 1, 2019
CHRONOGRAM: 8 THINGS IN THE HUDSON VALLEY THIS MAY
On May 4, Bank Holiday, a new Catskill-based reading series presented by After Hours, will celebrate its launch at Bills Bar. Award-winning writer Amy Hempel will headline the show, with a reading from her new story collection, Sing to It. Hailed as the "master of the minimalist story," Hempel's collection emphasizes moments of revelation and transcendence, tying together the most private and fundamentally shared human experiences. Since the venue's conversion from a First Niagara Bank branch to Bills Bar is still underway, drinks will be served by a neighboring bar, HiLo, and Hudson's Spotty Dog will be teaming up with Bills for book sales. Acclaimed author Marie-Helene Bertino will introduce Hempel's work and spark discussion. The next reading, on August 3, will showcase poet Ariana Reines, whose collection A Sand Book goes on sale this June.
ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST OPEN READING PERIOD
November 1, 2018
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SPOTLIGHTS
AFTER HOURS LTD
August 25, 2017